unbefriended
Example Sentences
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I couldn't run away to be married in that desolate, unbefriended fashion.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
He had chosen to try the issue alone and unbefriended.
From Father Stafford by Hope, Anthony
He may have been a bit wild; but I can't leave poor Miles's son unbefriended in a foreign gaol.
From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Shaw, Bernard
Participles, or participial adjectives, reversed in sense by the prefix un; as, unaspiring, unavailing, unbelieving, unbattered, uninjured, unbefriended.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Heavens! was he turning soft-hearted at his time of life, that he should feel so unaccountably stirred by the bare act of coming to visit this ailing and unbefriended stranger?
From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram